Insists Palestinians Are 'Escalating' Situation After Torture Death

Israeli officials have rejected international calls, including those from the Palestinian Authority, to allow an international probe into the killing of detainee Arafat Jaradat, who was detained by Israeli forces and died shortly after signing a “confession,” with his body showing multiple signs of torture.

The officials said that the call for an international probe was “predictable” and part of a Palestinian strategy designed at escalating the situation, noting that Palestinian officials were already reporting the torture within hours of the autopsy.

The UN is calling on Israel to conduct an “independent and transparent investigation” of Jaradat’s death. Israel insists they always do so when they end up killing a detainee, but reiterated that Jaradat’s death was from a “heart attack” and not from the many broken bones, bruises and cuts on his corpse.

Israeli troops have wounded several protesters in the occupied West Bank since Jaradat’s death, using live ammunition in some cases to respond to rock throwers, despite the military’s own rules of engagement explicitly banning the practice.

The officials said that the call for an international probe was “predictable” and part of a Palestinian strategy designed at escalating the situation, noting that Palestinian officials were already reporting the torture within hours of the autopsy.
Shame on you Palestinians, you should have waited for something like sixty years or so, you had no right in asking
For an international probe into the death of a Palestinian prisoner, don't you know that Israel is the boss and she's
Allowed to do as she pleases, she even kills Americans ,seventeen American sailors all at once and she got away with it and You crying over one.

Well, see, that's how governments (including, but not limited to, Israel's) work: Complain after only six hours and you're jumping the gun and "politicizing a tragic situation;" wait six months and sorry, that's water under the bridge, you should have acted in a more timely manner.

"The UN is calling on Israel to conduct an “independent and transparent investigation” of Jaradat’s death". What a joke. When did Israel ever conduct an "independent and transparent investigation? What the are really good at in their investigations is being able to whitewash any crime they commit.

Lastnight watched BBC2 ,The Anniversary of Iraq invasion, variety of comments made, what was the intension of previous administration?.some thought just to create an evil blood thirsty leader, the Hang him, looked like Human's life has no value to them, Who created the Taliban, Ben Laden ,learned other day an Australian Editor, openly were saying what is the Intention of some Middle-Eastern politicians , Muslim countries do not need enemies, worms they are eaten within ,Swedish IAEA, leaser openly said his sorrow not to be able influence United Nation's Authority to stop invasion of Iraq, there was no Mass destruction evidence, all just were merely publicities .